SINGER-SONGWRITER
Adam Cohen
Whelan's, Dublin 8pm €23 whelanslive.com
Yes, you've guessed it – he's the son of Leonard, but Adam is very much his own man and his own singer-songwriter, something fully proved by his 2013 album, Like a Man, and his new record, We Go Home. He's building his own tower of song; why don't you help him out on the chorus?

ART
The Talking Earth
Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny Until Dec 14 butlergallery.com
The vast night skies above New South Wales and the mines beneath the surface inspired the video and photographic works in Dubliner Amy Walsh's show. To look at the stars is to look into the past, she notes, and inspires an awareness of the turning earth, day by day. The miners used locally felled tress to support their tunnels. When they began to creak – the earth talking – they got out of there, fast.

RECORD LABEL
Mississippi Records
Sugar Club Dublin 7.30pm €12.50 thesugarclub.com
Eric Isaacson is the bossman at Mississippi Records, a proflic reissue label based out of a record shop of the same name in Portland, Oregon. Working to the spirit of grat collectors and archivists like Alan Lomax and Harry Smith, Mississippi has uncovered folk, blues, jazz, world and much more. Tonight will feature a presentation from Isaacson, a film screening and live sets from label acts Marisa Anderson, Lori Goldston and Dragging An Ox Through Water.

THEATRE
The Way Back Home
Black Box Theatre, Galway 11am & 3pm tht.ie
A collaboration between Ireland's Branar Téatar do Pháistí and Denmark's Teater Refleksion, The Way Back Home has been scooping up plaudits from the young (it's pitched at ages 3-8) and old for its combination of non-verbal performance, puppets and music. Finishing today at Galway's Baboró festival, it then tours to Dublin, pursuing a new version of the Oliver Jeffers story about a boy who flies into outer space and makes an emergency landing on the moon.